igloo

noun
🔊/ˈɪɡluː/
🔊/ˈɪɡluː/
(plural igloos)
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  1. a small round house or shelter built from blocks of hard snow by the Inuit people of northern North America and Greenland(北美北部因纽特人的拱形圆顶)冰屋Topics Houses and homesc1, Buildingsc1
    Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Inuit iglu ‘house’.